{"id":11214,"date":"2012-07-02T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=11214"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:14:58","slug":"cooking-on-the-internets-a-brief-history-of-homebrew-cookery-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/07\/02\/cooking-on-the-internets-a-brief-history-of-homebrew-cookery-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking
On The Internets: A brief history of homebrew cookery
shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
<p>Cookery was never my fort\u00e9.<\/p>\n</p>
<p>
  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have a history with kitchen equipment &#8211;
  it&#8217;s a sad, sad story involving a large quantity of Red Bull, an
  all-nighter at University, an offer of 50p, a camera, a toaster, and my
  genitals. The problem is that the output of my culinary bodgejobs tend to be
  either inedible, burned, or contain more cheese than the average human is
  capable of dealing with.<\/p>\n
</p>
<p>
  It&#8217;s hard to deny that cookery is fun, though. Get in a kitchen, crack
  out all kinds of implausibly-shaped apparatus, put squishy and goopy and chewy
  things together, bung it in the oven, hope for the best. It&#8217;s like
  science, but with an end product that will either serve as your dinner or a
  cheaper alternative to Polyfilla.<\/p>\n
</p>
<p>
  So, if you&#8217;re like me and you feel that, for the sake of all involved,
  cookery is best done vicariously &#8211; it saves on cleanup, anyway &#8211;
  fear not, because the Internet is here to help.<\/p>\n
</p>
<h2>
  It Begins: Epic Meal Time<\/h2>\n
  <p>
    <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Xc5wIpUenQ?rel=0\"
    frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n
  </p>
  <p>
    <em
      >Epic Meal Time<\/em> is where it all started. A bunch of guys got
      together with a camera and made some brilliant, stupid food. The preview
      frame for each video contains a picture of the eldritch horror that is
      produced, along with its calorie count.<\/p>\n
      <p>
        Previous creations include their riff on the turducken &#8211; the <a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Xc5wIpUenQ\">TurBacon
        Epic<\/a> (79,046 calories, pictured above, and described as &#8216;a
        bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig&#8217;), <a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jXjxHQQxcLw\">Fast Food
        Sushi<\/a> (11,816 calories of I assure you that you really don&#8217;t
        want to know), and the Valentine&#8217;s Day special &#8211; 190,400
        calories of &#8216;<a
        href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i-rD2-pgMdM\">Super Sloppy
        Sundae<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n
      </p>
      <p>
        I think we can rest assured that this is the kind of cookery that would
        give Jamie Oliver an aneurysm, and the rest of us a nasty case of
        angina. And why the hell not? It&#8217;s your body, and you should
        choose exactly what you want to put into it. If you can have a good time
        with your friends in the process, so much the better.<\/p>\n
      </p>
      <p>
        <em
          >Epic Meal Time<\/em> was brilliant, witty, and otherwise furiously
          entertaining for a long time. It got the idea that cooking could be a
          gentlemanly pursuit out there to a lot of eyeballs, and that has
          value. What ruined it though was, like so many things, its own
          success. Suddenly, the self-parodying bravado of this group of friends
          became actual bravado. A sponsorship deal and continuous references to
          &#8216;Internet Money&#8217; took the metaphorical axe to the
          humour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11209\" style=\"width: 310px\"
          class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a
          href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg\"><img
          aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11209\"
          data-attachment-id=\"11209\"
          data-permalink=\"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/07\/02\/cooking-on-the-internets-a-brief-history-of-homebrew-cookery-shows\/emt-girls\/\"
          data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg?fit=639%2C348&amp;ssl=1\"
          data-orig-size=\"639,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\"
          data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"
          data-image-title=\"emt-girls\" data-image-description=\"\"
          data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg?fit=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1\"
          data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg?fit=639%2C348&amp;ssl=1\"
          loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11209 \"
          src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls-300x163.jpg?resize=300%2C163\"
          alt=\"Two girls with heavy make-up, eating a large dessert while a
          bearded man peers on from the background\" width=\"300\"
          height=\"163\"
          srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1
          300w,
          https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1
          500w,
          https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/emt-girls.jpg?w=639&amp;ssl=1
          639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"
          data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11209\"
          class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behold: Epic Meal Time&#8217;s personal
          twist on gender balancing.<\/p><\/div>\n
          <p>
            It wasn&#8217;t just that, though. You can be damn certain that if
            I&#8217;m getting the arse on at something on BadRep, there&#8217;s
            a gender angle too, and sure enough, there is. When the bravado
            became too genuine, the continuous (and already tenuous) references
            to &#8216;bitches&#8217; went from problematic to outright
            misogynist. Attractive women started to feature in the videos
            &#8211; but only eating the food, never participating in its
            creation as part of the group. I can&#8217;t even remember a single
            video in which you hear a female voice.<\/p>\n
          </p>
          <p>
            Once it stopped being self-parodying and just became
            self-aggrandising, <a
            href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JumpingTheShark\">the
            shark had been jumped<\/a>.<\/p>\n
          </p>
          <h2>
            Scandinavia Steps In: Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time<\/h2>\n
            <p>
              <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3d-qENAaNbM?rel=0\"
              frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n
            </p>
            <p>
              A Swedish gentleman with the kind of facial hair not seen since <a
              href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-fvLs5KXWYI?t=31s\">the heady days of
              Technoviking<\/a> decided that Sweden could do better without
              making any special effort.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11212\"
              style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a
              href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg\"><img
              aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11212\"
              data-attachment-id=\"11212\"
              data-permalink=\"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/07\/02\/cooking-on-the-internets-a-brief-history-of-homebrew-cookery-shows\/smt\/\"
              data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg?fit=640%2C348&amp;ssl=1\"
              data-orig-size=\"640,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\"
              data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"
              data-image-title=\"smt\" data-image-description=\"\"
              data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg?fit=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1\"
              data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg?fit=640%2C348&amp;ssl=1\"
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              src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt-300x163.jpg?resize=300%2C163\"
              alt=\"The host of Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time and a friend,
              biting each end of a rasher of bacon and stretching it between
              them\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\"
              srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1
              300w,
              https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1
              500w,
              https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/smt.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1
              640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"
              data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11212\"
              class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the ancient Swedish tradition of
              bacon tug-of-war, everyone&#8217;s a winner.<\/p><\/div>\n
            </p>
            <p>
              Our host regaled us with fairly uninspiring, everyday meals,
              prepared in a wonderfully over-the-top manner. Mayonnaise was
              eaten straight from the jar (&#8220;PRE DINNER SNACK. IT&#8217;S
              GOOD FOR YOU&#8221;). Butter was smeared by punching it. Cardboard
              packaging was opened with teeth. Water for boiling pasta was
              collected in the form of snow.<\/p>\n
            </p>
            <p>
              There&#8217;s undeniable machismo, but since this show is meant as
              a parody of
              <em
                >Epic Meal Time<\/em>, I think there&#8217;s a reasonable
                argument to be made for it being exaggeration for the sake of
                comedy. It doesn&#8217;t grate in the same way that
                <em
                  >Epic Meal Time<\/em> started to.<\/p>\n
                  <p>
                    Cooking is a better experience when combined with facial
                    hair and shouting.\u00a0Fetch yourself a horn of mead and
                    check it out.<\/p>\n
                  </p>
                  <h2>
                    The obligatory, if unorthodox, musical: Vegan Black Metal
                    Chef<\/h2>\n
                    <p>
                      <iframe
                      src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_1ei3O7y2eg?rel=0\"
                      frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"
                      height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n
                    </p>
                    <p>
                      Black metal conjures up imagery of teenagers in too much
                      makeup running through the woods, filming themselves on
                      their Dad&#8217;s camcorder, while they scream about the
                      Grim Frostbitten North and wield ludicrous knives that
                      they bought on eBay.<\/p>\n
                    </p>
                    <p>
                      What it doesn&#8217;t conjure up, however, is vegan
                      cuisine.<\/p>\n
                    </p>
                    <p>
                      This is exactly the reason that
                      <em
                        >Vegan Black Metal Chef<\/em> is amazing.<\/p>\n<div
                        id=\"attachment_11213\" style=\"width: 310px\"
                        class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a
                        href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg\"><img
                        aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11213\"
                        data-attachment-id=\"11213\"
                        data-permalink=\"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2012\/07\/02\/cooking-on-the-internets-a-brief-history-of-homebrew-cookery-shows\/vbmc\/\"
                        data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg?fit=539%2C274&amp;ssl=1\"
                        data-orig-size=\"539,274\" data-comments-opened=\"1\"
                        data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\"
                        data-image-title=\"vbmc\" data-image-description=\"\"
                        data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg?fit=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1\"
                        data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg?fit=539%2C274&amp;ssl=1\"
                        loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11213\"
                        src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc-300x152.jpg?resize=300%2C152\"
                        alt=\"A man in corpsepaint, doing the claw with the text
                        An Epic Plate Of Tempura Asparagus\" width=\"300\"
                        height=\"152\"
                        srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1
                        300w,
                        https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1
                        500w,
                        https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vbmc.jpg?w=539&amp;ssl=1
                        539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"
                        data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p
                        id=\"caption-attachment-11213\"
                        class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dark Lords of the Deep are
                        well-known for their vegan tastes.<\/p><\/div>\n
                        <p>
                          The effort that goes into the
                          <em
                            >Vegan Black Metal Chef<\/em> kitchen is pretty
                            mindblowing. The whole place is outfitted with
                            studded black leather, occult symbols, skulls, you
                            name it. The food isn&#8217;t particularly
                            inspiring, but that might just be how I see vegan
                            food. Fortunately, the food is far from the
                            point.<\/p>\n
                            <p>
                              Black metal is another field of intense bravado.
                              Though I don&#8217;t want to paint an entire
                              subculture by the failings of its extremes,
                              it&#8217;s hard to avoid the fact that black metal
                              fandom is a subculture full of homophobia and
                              transphobia, and is often popularly associated
                              with Nazi music. It&#8217;s wonderful, then, that
                              <em
                                >Vegan Black Metal Chef<\/em> is so inherently
                                subversive. It&#8217;s self-deprecating mockery
                                in which you&#8217;re invited to laugh with
                                someone at the sillier bits of their own
                                subculture, and that makes it a pleasure to
                                watch.<\/p>\n
                                <p>
                                  The extensive make-up is a \u00a0wonderful
                                  parallel here with more
                                  &#8216;traditional&#8217; female-led cookery
                                  shows, particularly Nigella Lawson&#8217;s
                                  sexualised content where her appearance is
                                  pushed to the audience just as much, if not
                                  more, than the actual food.
                                  <em
                                    >Vegan Black Metal Chef<\/em>, it could be
                                    argued, takes host-over-food cookery content
                                    to the next level.<\/p>\n
                                    <p>
                                      In any case, do you want to see a man in
                                      corpsepaint <a
                                      href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg\">invoke
                                      Lovecraftian horrors over a bowl of Pad
                                      Thai<\/a>? Of course you do.
                                      <em
                                        >Vegan Black Metal Chef<\/em> is for
                                        you.<\/p>\n
                                        <h2>
                                          Booze and brilliance: My Drunk
                                          Kitchen<\/h2>\n
                                          <p>
                                            <iframe
                                            src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5opKlp7f3ZE?rel=0\"
                                            frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"
                                            height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n
                                          </p>
                                          <p>
                                            As far as I&#8217;m concerned,
                                            <em
                                              >My Drunk Kitchen<\/em> is the
                                              best cooking show on the Internet
                                              right now. Hosted by <a
                                              href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/harto\">Hannah
                                              Hart<\/a>, it&#8217;s a very
                                              simple premise &#8211; drink booze
                                              and cook some stuff.<\/p>\n<div
                                              id=\"attachment_11211\"
                                              style=\"width: 310px\"
                                              class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a
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                                              src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mdk-300x162.jpg?resize=300%2C162\"
                                              alt=\"Hannah Hart of My Drunk
                                              Kitchen peers at a self-heating
                                              bag while holding a glass of
                                              water\" width=\"300\"
                                              height=\"162\"
                                              srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mdk.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1
                                              300w,
                                              https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/badreputation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/mdk.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1
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                                              100vw, 300px\"
                                              data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p
                                              id=\"caption-attachment-11211\"
                                              class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shortly
                                              after this frame, the self-heating
                                              bag begins to billow smoke. If
                                              that isn&#8217;t selling you on My
                                              Drunk Kitchen, I don&#8217;t know
                                              what will.<\/p><\/div>\n
                                              <p>
                                                It&#8217;s the first of the
                                                shows that I&#8217;ve covered
                                                here to feature a female host,
                                                and what I find particularly
                                                important is that it
                                                doesn&#8217;t fucking matter.
                                                There&#8217;s the occasional
                                                line that bugs me, but by and
                                                large the humour is genderless,
                                                and there&#8217;s no (or very
                                                little) cutesy
                                                look-at-me-I&#8217;m-a-girl-on-the-Internet-teehee.
                                                Hannah Hart is Hannah Hart, and
                                                she&#8217;s drinking beer and
                                                belching and overdoing it with
                                                the cheese and burning herself
                                                on the oven because fuck you,
                                                that&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n
                                              </p>
                                              <p>
                                                Far and away my favourite
                                                episode is the one where the
                                                good Ms. Hart tackles military
                                                Meals Ready to Eat &#8211; known
                                                as MREs &#8211; outdoors and
                                                clad in a bodgejobbed
                                                Braveheart-esque shawl.<\/p>\n
                                              </p>
                                              <p>
                                                It&#8217;s not going to teach
                                                you to cook. It&#8217;s going to
                                                make you grin repeatedly. <a
                                                href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL2EC7F45DBD9D9B1A\">Watch
                                                it.<\/a><\/p>\n
                                              </p>
                                              <h2>
                                                And the rest<\/h2>\n
                                                <p>
                                                  I&#8217;m absolutely certain
                                                  that I&#8217;ve missed some
                                                  gems. Have I neglected to
                                                  mention your favourite
                                                  homebrew cookery show? Let me
                                                  know about it in the comments.
                                                  If there are enough, and
                                                  BadRep haven&#8217;t fired me
                                                  for overuse of the term
                                                  &#8216;bodgejob&#8217;,
                                                  I&#8217;d love to write a
                                                  followup with the fan
                                                  favourites that I&#8217;m
                                                  currently unfamiliar
                                                  with.<\/p>\n<div
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                                                                        is best
                                                                        done
                                                                        vicariously
                                                                        &#8211;
                                                                        it saves
                                                                        on
                                                                        cleanup,
                                                                        anyway
                                                                        &#8211;
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